My Grammar and I (Or Should That Be 'Me'?): Old-School Ways to Sharpen Your English

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ENTENCES
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‘By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense
advantage over the cleverer boys… I got into my bones the essential
structure of the normal British sentence – which is a noble thing. Naturally
I am biased in favour of boys learning English; and then I would let the
clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat.’
W
INSTON
C
HURCHILL
A  sentence  is  ‘a  sequence  of  words  capable  of  standing  alone  to  make  an
assertion, ask a question or give a command’. All sentences:
1.   have a subject and a predicate (see
here
)
2.   begin with a capital letter
3.   end in a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark
There are various types of sentence, depending on how complicated they are:
A  simple  sentence  consists  of  a  single  main  clause  or  statement  (we’ll  come
back  to  what  a  clause  is  shortly  –  see
here
 ):  I  like  pink  roses  ,  or  You  prefer
white roses.
A  compound  sentence  consists  of  two  or  more  main  clauses:  I  like  pink  roses
best, but I expect you’ll choose white ones .